Celebrate Black Teachers and Students
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
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Mrs. McCarthy from Saint Petersburg, FL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
See what Mrs. McCarthy is requestingHelp me give my students trains, cars, and racetracks to expand their imagination and learn through play.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
Our school serves students in grades Pre-K-5th and provides strong academics, creative teachers, and a safe learning environment. We are a low-income, Title I school. We use seven habits of happy kids and a growth mindset. This, combined with the emphasis on academics, has ensured that our students grow to become well-rounded, successful, and happy students. My little students are the youngest of Pre-K, 3’s. We are blended gen ed and ESE special needs.
In our classroom, we are a diverse group of learners who come together as a family, supporting each other, and learning together.
"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn." -Ignacio Estrada.
My students understand, no matter what their exceptionalism, their possibilities are limitless.
These special students require teachers to draw from their heart to reach each student emotionally, thereby gaining their trust to encourage them academically. One needs to create a safe and loving classroom that allows students to be comfortable to challenge themselves to meet the high learning expectations. My students have the ability. They just need to find it within themselves, to become lifelong learners.
Play taps into learners' strengths. Recognizing that play is literacy acknowledges its semiotic power as a literary tool and a creative resource that expresses meaning, invites collaborative storymaking, and provides a space where players can pretend together to make sense of—or make over—their collective experience. Let's reimagine the types of play in literacy learning while also challenging them with exciting toys: bright colored trains, wooden tracks, cars, reace cars and race tracks, with which all types of playful experience to occur.
Equity is best confronted and improved through developing and expanding of imagination through play.
Imaginative play empowers children to strengthen their imagination, to think out of the box, while having fun. My scholars love trains and cars. The conversations, storytelling, and imaginative is amazing! By offering this play in a safe space with peers is offering equity in play for my scholars, who may otherwise not be able to afford these types of toys, types of interactions, and chance to be creatively free with their imaginations. Imaginations are what fuels academics, STEM, and advances in the world, by being able to think out of the box. Help give my scholars this chance to learn, imagine and have fun through play.
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